(12 Mar) Building Resilient Legal Systems in the AI Age

Date: 12 March 2026

Time: 4.00pm – 5.30pm

Venue: Function Lounge 4-2, SMU Yong Pung How School of Law, Level 4, 55 Armenian Street Singapore 179943

Theme: Adapting to Change II: AI & Emerging Technologies

Artificial intelligence is reshaping the global environment in which legal systems operate—not only by transforming how individuals, firms, and governments act, but also by reconfiguring the broader political economy that sustains them.

Resilience in this context means ensuring that legal systems can anticipate, absorb, and adapt to technological disruption while continuing to deliver justice, maintain legitimacy, and safeguard rights. Without deliberate strategies for resilience, legal systems risk narrowing into brittle, tech-dominated structures: constrained in their options, vulnerable to capture, and unable to fulfil their core functions.

Engage with this panel that convenes experts across academia, government, and industry to explore how law can remain a stabilising force in the age of AI and to identify practical strategies for embedding resilience “by design” into legal institutions.

Speakers

Assoc Prof Jason Grant Allen

Jason is Director, Centre for Digital Law and Associate Professor of Law at the Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University. His research spans law, technology, and political economy, with a focus on AI governance, digital assets, and the concept of office in public law.

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Assoc Prof Han-Wei Liu

Han-Wei studies law and technology, focusing on digital regulation, AI governance, and cross-border data flows. His research spans across international economic law, trade agreements, and financial regulation, with projects on semiconductor supply chains and platform governance.

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Asst Prof Rachel Phang

Rachel is an Assistant Professor of Law at the Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University. Her research interests are in the areas of financial law and regulation, contract law and tort law.

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